WWE Attitude Era | 17
History of the 90s
Kathy Kenzora
4.7 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Between 1997 and 2002 professional wrestling’s Attitude Era broke boundaries in ways like never before with risqué programming, adult oriented content and larger than life superstars like Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Rock, Bret Hart, The Undertaker and Sean Michaels.
Throw in the Monday night ratings war between the WWF and the WCW and it was the perfect storm of wrestling greatness.
WWF’s Monday Night Raw and the WCW’s Monday Nitro aired each week at the same time forcing fans to choose between the two. On June 17, 1996, Monday Nitro won the battle of the Monday night ratings for the first time. And It would go on to win the ratings war for the next 84 weeks in a row.
It would take WCW two years to claw its way back to the top thanks to the outrageous programming of the Attitude Era.
On this episode of History of the 90s, host Kathy Kenzora takes a look back at some of the most memorable moments of the Attitude Era as we try to understand why fans can’t get enough of 90s wrestling.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Kathy. |
| 0:01.5 | I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to History of the 90s |
| 0:04.7 | early and ad-free on Amazon music included with Prime. |
| 0:09.8 | Rock, you won't mind one more time taking mankind apart, will you? |
| 0:16.5 | Matter of fact, the Rock will lay the Smackdown on his candy ass. |
| 0:21.6 | In 1999, just days before WrestleMania 15, where the Rock was set to take on Stone Cold Steve Austin for the World Heavyweight Championship, |
| 0:31.6 | one of the most memorable moments in all of wrestling took place. |
| 0:36.6 | As a buildup to the match, the Texas Rattlesnake came crashing through the curtain of Monday Night |
| 0:43.0 | Raw in a Coors Light beer truck to let the corporation know that he was starting the celebration |
| 0:49.6 | early. |
| 0:51.6 | The corporation was made up of the McMahon family, in particular Vince, and their crown jewel was Dwayne the Rock Johnson, aka the People's Champ. |
| 1:03.0 | To the delight of screaming fans, Austin drove right up to the ring and jumped on top of the truck and shouted out a message to the rock. |
| 1:12.9 | Stone Cold Steve Austin is going to take his ass to Philadelphia, check right in to the Smackdown |
| 1:20.1 | Hotel, row right in to Route 316 and burned that son of the bits to the ground. |
| 1:30.0 | Stone Cold then jumped down from the truck, unrolled a hose, and began spraying the rock with beer. |
| 1:37.5 | Wait a minute. |
| 1:39.1 | Oh, so cold. |
| 1:40.7 | Beer's no cold with a beer bath. |
| 1:55.7 | This stunt was one of the highlights of a time between 1997 and 2002 when professional wrestling broke boundaries in ways like never before. |
| 2:02.5 | Fans were treated to risque programming, adult-oriented content, and larger-than-life superstars, like Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Brett Hart, The Undertaker, and Sean Michaels. |
| 2:10.4 | At the heart of it, though, was a ratings war, and it fueled the perfect storm of wrestling |
| 2:16.6 | greatness. |
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